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Jubilation ‘tempered with a call to wisdom’

The Archbishop of Canterbury urged Britons yesterday to harness the sense of community created by the Jubilee to cure the ills of society.

In one of his last major sermons before stepping down in December, Dr Rowan Williams contrasted the communal urge to do good with those driven by greed or selfishness.

His sermon, delivered at St Paul’s Cathedral, encapsulated his views on the threats and opportunities facing modern Britain after nearly ten years leading the Church of England.

It echoed warnings expressed at the weekend by the Bishop of London, Dr Richard Chartres, about the danger of failing to address social inequalities. The cathedral was gleaming after its recent restoration but few could forget that until February it had played unwilling host to an…